Volume 48, No. 21, November 16, 2006
By Will Van Weerdenburg
FROM this week, ADF members’ salary and salary-related allowances will increase by 4.2
per cent.
This is the first of four increases over the next three years under the new Workplace Remuneration Arrangement (WRA) recently approved by the Defence Force Remuneration Tribunal (DFRT). Members will see the change in their pay slips from 30 November 2006. The increases apply to all members up to the rank of AVM (or equivalent).
The WRA is the military version of workplace bargaining and delivers across-the-board pay rises for ADF members, in return for improvements in productivity. Member support was a key factor the DFRT examined when considering approval of the WRA pay increases. Commanders were tasked to survey their units and overall 62% of approximately 26,900 ADF members surveyed supported the pay increases that were proposed under the new arrangement.
The new WRA will increase ADF salary by a total of 12.6 per cent, paid in nine-month increments over the three-year period of the arrangement.
The pay increases will be paid as follows:
4.2 per cent from Nov 16, 2006;
2.8 per cent from Aug 9, 2007;
2.8 per cent from May 1, 2008; and
2.8 per cent from Feb 5, 2009.
A brochure detailing the new pay rates will be included in the next edition of AIR FORCE News.
For more information, visit the Defence Pay and Conditions website and click on the ‘Workplace Remuneration Arrangement’ link.
